Remember when computers took up whole rooms? Yeah, neither do I. The first computer my family had was about the same size, case-wise, as the one it has now. Stronger, faster, more memory, more space, all on the inside. It's always been about getting things to move faster than they are, up until now.
Now we are getting smaller, weaker, but more portable laptops. Of course laptops are generally slower and less expandable than desktops but they too have always been moving forward in terms of power and speed. But this new breed, like the eeePC by Asus and the upcoming Everex Cloudbook have much smaller screens (7 inches) smaller hard drives (only a couple of gigs for the eeePC) and no optical (cd/dvd) drive. They are small, portable, and cheap enough to get a new one ever other year as needed. They are the type of laptop I would buy my niece or would take with me backpacking through Europe.
I don't want to call them disposable because of the price, but I would be willing to take risks with a new eeepc that I would not have taken with a new 12 inch Powerbook, which was the last computer than I bought all those years ago. Of course these laptops would not be my primary computer, but a supplemental one, which I guess is the point here. Now if only I can get my hands on one.
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